Andrea's Plants, Photos and Travels: October 2016

Monday, October 24, 2016

Baguio City Lepidopterans

I was not able to post for the last two weeks, a little occupied with work. I even missed the October GBBD. I was only able to post for the FB friends, but really cannot cope with blogging, as this needs a PC to work on. But i will make-up for that with this post, i hope you will enjoy my photos.

The week before last we had an activity for 4 days in Baguio City, a place in the highlands, we normally call the Summer Capital of the Philippines. It is a city, Shangrila-like, amidst steep mountain sides. It is reached via a very circuitous route traversing very deep ravines with strong water current, through a highway that usually closes every after a strong typhoon due to landslides. So a city on top of the mountains, with sub-tropical climate, is a lovely respite for us living in the hot lowlands of Metro Manila.

After the 3-day sessions of whole-day project evaluations and critiquing, a half-day is free, and we were allowed to roam wherever we wanted to. In my case, i wanted my afternoon to roam the parks and botanical garden. So i asked the administrator of a group on butterflies for a meeting, and she gave her whole afternoon showing me where the butterflies are! She is very knowledgeable on Baguio's butterflies and moths, we scanned two parks. That was our first meeting so we learned about each other while chasing butterflies. Here are most of them. I leave some photos for another post.